Well, I broke down and lit up the 116. Got home from a week on the road and it was about 52 in the house and the forcast calling for 27 tonight. Loath to fire the furnace, I fired the 116 and 3 hours later it's 70 in the place and the stove is only cruising at 325. You can imagine in day or two after the house soaks it up, it will be easy to maintain whatever temp I want. This stove has great control and is responsive. The weather is looking like "stove" weather at least thru Monday and depending on what happens then, I may try and idle through the warmer days since the end of next week looks chilly enough. So much for waitin on Halloween.

Is that stove size coal in there or mixed ?Did nu chrome do your nickel it looks very nice, would you recommend them ?

I spoke to Jack from Nu Chrome this week and he said they should be up and running again very soon since the move is finished.

Edit:Thought of a couple more questions,Did you paint or polish the stove barrel I am thinking polish as I am not a fan of paint on a cast iron stove and how many tubes of Williams polish did you use for the entire restoration ?

Thanks Richard, It sure does feel gratifying and satisfying to realize (this morning) that the stove held solid 350 all night and never moved up or down in 13 hours. Don't think it will need a shake till tonight really as the first fill being fresh always lasts longest.

Keith, That is the stove/nut mix coal. I do have a mix of 4/2 stove/nut, but allot of the nut was in the middle so to speak. It's mostly stove as you can see good sized chunks.

Yes I am very happy with how the nickel came out. I worked in a plating shop as a teen and can appreciate good work and proper look. I am not sure who did it but if you call Bryant's Stove in Maine ask for Donna, and tell her you are considering doing the nickel over on your stove and who do they use as their plater (because you've seen a couple different ones and want to make sure it's not whomever before you decide), you might get the name.

2-3 Tubes of Williams will get it done the first time. After that it doesn't take near as much (maybe a tube or less) to polish the stove but like a wood finish, the first one seems to "soak" it up.

That thing looks great Steve. I guess I will be on the skype line soon with my son to go through the fire up process for the Harman if it is that cold up there. I know where there is a similar stove, probably a base burner but a Glenwood or Modern Glenwood that I aspire to own one day. It sets in a basement looking nice and not being used.

What was the overnight low temp wise, didn't get very cold here over night maybe mid to low 40's.Friday night it was lows 30's and I fired up the new gas boiler and bled air from the radiators and now it works very well. I could get used to those things on the wall, I think they call them a thermostat but the bill in a month or so may change my mind really quickly if my natural gas usage and cost are high .

Back to work on the 6, need to start assembly of the lower pans today.

KLook wrote:That thing looks great Steve. I guess I will be on the skype line soon with my son to go through the fire up process for the Harman if it is that cold up there. I know where there is a similar stove, probably a base burner but a Glenwood or Modern Glenwood that I aspire to own one day. It sets in a basement looking nice and not being used.

Kevin

Kev, Yeah Man, definitely keep that Glenwood in your sights. On Friday when I got back from Boston it was about 52 in the house. Looked at the weather and it was "stoveable" for the next 4 days or so and marginal after that so I decided to give it a go. The cookstove is off so just the MO116 heating the whole place is doing it pretty easily too.

Kieth, the low friday night was 29 and we had a good hard frost. Last night was about 39. Now that the stove has been going a couple days the house is starting to get consistent through out heat wise. I've only had the 116 at 350 for these 38 hours now and it's 70 throughout.